ABORTION: Clayton Cramer links to an affadavit recently written by Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. "Jane Roe" from Roe v. Wade (1973). In it, she decries her former involvement with the abortion industry and gives some rather graphic descriptions of the two decades she spent working in abortion clinics.
I worked in several abortion facilities over the years. In fact, I even worked at two clinics at the same time, and they were all the same with respect to the condition of the facilities and the "counseling" the women receive. One clinic where I worked in 1995 was typical: Light fictures and plaster falling from the ceiling; rat droppings over the sinks; backed up sinks; and blood splattered on the walls. But the most distressing room in the facility was the "parts room". Aborted babies were stored here. There were dead babies and baby parts stacked like cordwood. Some of the babies made it into buckets and others did not, and because of its disgusting features, no one ever cleaned the room. The stench was horrible. Plastic bags full of baby parts that were swimming in blood were tied up, stored in the room, and picked up once a week. At another clinic, the dead babies were kept in a big white freezer full of dozens of jars, all full of baby parts, little tiny hands and feet visible through the jars, frozen in blood. The abortion clinic's personnel always referred to these dismembered babies as "tissue." Vetrinary clinics I have seen are cleaner and more regulated than the abortion clinics I worked in.There's lots more in the affadavit. She talks about how she only met with her lawyers twice, never stepped into a courtroom, and found out the results of the court case through the newspaper. She claims that the abortion industry (as she calls it) exists only to make a profit, and cares nothing about the women whose lives are devestated.
What's the difference between an abortion clinic's "parts room" and one of Saddam's mass graves? Saddam killed children against their parents' wishes? The children Saddam killed were larger, and spatially separate from their mothers?
More than 35 million babies have been killed in America since 1973.
http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2003-06-11/triangles2.html
I consider abortion to be killing, and it should be restricted just like other forms of killing. If a pregnancy endangers the life of the mother, then killing the baby can be justified as self-defense.
Sorry, that was I who left that link above; I was extremely tired when I did so and forgot to add personal information.
But I'd also like to add that I don't consider Norma McCorvey the most reliable witness. She became an anti-choice activist long before 1995, so I doubt she was working in a clinic that year. And, having volunteered for Planned Parenthood in the mid-'90s (data entry and desktop publishing), I sincerely doubt any reputable clinic would hire people who come in "drunk or stoned all the time," or doctors who come in without shirt, shoes, or knowledge of the English language.
Another person active in the abortion-rights movement who saw McCorvey's affidavit adds, "I find it amusing that she claims not to even know what 'abortion' was back in 1972, even though prior to meeting Sarah Weddington she testifies that she was actively seeking an abortion both from her doctor and from illegal sources! Oh, okay, she'd never heard of abortion before, she 'hadn't looked it up,' she was just looking for it. Uh-huh. Yeah, right."